Time sure flies—it’s already that time of year again for the Tonaki expedition.

The appeal of the Tonaki expedition is that in just one day, you can experience completely different diving styles: exploring the terrain, spotting schools of fish, and targeting big game.

Also, although it’s limited to Sundays, one of the highlights is “Nakaruma,” where you can target large sharks and rays that inhabit sandy bottoms at a drift dive site.

So, for our first Tonaki expedition of the season, we split into two teams: one that visited three different sites and another that focused on Nakarma.

Air temperature: 31°C, Water temperature: 27–28°C, Visibility: 20–25 m

Iroiro no Saki was as beautiful as ever.

Schools of vibrantly colored fish—purple, orange, white, and yellow.

Just diving at this site makes you happy, doesn’t it?

And then there’s Nakarma.

It went through a rough patch for a while, but I think it’s made a full recovery.

Today, a staff member who entered at Shiomi came back up having seen a tiger shark, giant trevally, barracuda, and yellowfin tuna—all of them.

The bar is getting higher, but… they were all actually there.

However, the tiger shark started swimming away before everyone could gather, so we weren’t able to capture it on video…

In addition, there were massive Napoleon wrasses, schools of Spanish mackerel, and schools of bluefin trevally—the abundance of fish was truly spectacular.

One team even spotted a tiger shark.

While the manta rays are in full force in Kerama, I also highly recommend an expedition to Tonaki during this season.

Be sure to give it a try!

Tomorrow, I’m heading to Manza and then to Kerama.